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As you were watching Rogue One, did you hear a little voice in the back of your head? Maybe it said something like: “Wait. The Empire doesn’t do cloud storage? All their info is located on Scarif? And then they just blew it up?”

Then you told that voice to shut up because you were too busy having fun watching an awesome movie to worry about the Empire’s inadequacies in data storage.

He goes on to point out that the Jedi were no better. Jocasta Nu, in particular, I always thought was a terrible librarian. On her watch, whole star systems were deleted from the archives, not to mention that she was totally condescending and unhelpful to the Jedi trying to do research.

Incompetence/stupidity can be lame as a plot device, but I think Star Wars does pretty well with it. I admit that I did kind of like that Tarkin blew up the archives to cover up everything (and undoubtedly blame it all on Krenic). The Empire is the kind of government where things don’t have to work well, they just have to work in your favor.

Lol Jocasta Nu. Yeah I was always baffled by her weird response to one of the highest ranked Jedi masters.

But I did read that scarif article a while ago and sometimes you just have to shrug your shoulders and be like… Star Wars. What can you do? I now refer to it as the Maz Kanata line when she brushes over the explanation of how she got Luke’s lightsaber. One of those WHAT? And then… Oh star wars okay. Gotta just roll with it.

I’m a pretty laid-back person, so in general I try not to let minor details get in the way of my enjoyment of something. You’re right, sometimes you just shrug and say “that’s Star Wars” and move on to enjoying the space battle.